Puppe
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,728
in German word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Puppe is aGermannoun. It means: eine (verkleinerte) Rekonstruktion eines Menschen, eines Kleinkindes (welches zumeist als Spielzeug verwendet wird) Pronounced [ˈpʊpə]. Often confused with pure and Putze.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Puppe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpʊpə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #10,728 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Puppe is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpʊpə]. Corpus data places it at rank #10,728 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for Puppe, with forms such as "ppupe", "ppuppe", and "pupe". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pure", "Putze", "Puste", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Puppe, spelled P-U-P-P-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine (verkleinerte) Rekonstruktion eines Menschen, eines Kleinkindes (welches zumeist als Spielzeug verwendet wird)
- 2speziell angefertigte Puppe^([1a]), die zum Theaterspielen verwendet wird
- 3eine gutaussehende weibliche Person
- 4Entwicklungsstadium eines Insekts zwischen Larve und Vollinsekt
- 5zu Haufen zusammengestellte Stroh- oder Getreidegarben
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ppupe,ppuppe,pupe,pupep,upppe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Puppe
Misspelling Variants of "Puppe"
Frequency rank: #10,728 in German
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